Description
The Organization
Kettle's mission is to balance risk in a changing climate. Kettle uses deep learning and proprietary algorithms to reshape the reinsurance industry and better protect people from the growing risks associated with climate change. Kettle’s first product protects Californians’ businesses, homes, and livelihoods with wildfire reinsurance. To learn more, visit ourkettle.com
You probably have never heard of the $400bn reinsurance industry, but it is the single most important industry in the world to protect ourselves and help society recover from the effects of climate change disasters. This industry is failing due to a 3x increase in $1B+ crises caused by climate change. Kettle’s aim is to use deep learning to ensure that people’s lives are not destroyed when these events happen. By building the most sophisticated machine learning models to predict when and where wildfires happen, Kettle accurately prices the cost of covering wildfire prone areas in California. We are a machine-learning-powered reinsurer, in that we sell reinsurance to insurers, we don't sell software to reinsurers.
Who we are/what we value:
- Obsessive Fanatics - We obsess over big problems. We are fanatical about our business/mission. We drive the company towards the areas people describe as ‘impossible to understand or stop’
- Initiative - Obsessive people don’t need micromanagement.
- Data Focused - With the world burning worse every year, we can’t afford opinions and bias to derail data driven decisions.
- Questioning Renegades - We work in a 600 year old industry. If everyone is running one direction, we generally sprint in the other.
- Impact Driven - We are a mission driven business
The Role
We are looking for a passionate Senior Analyst to join our team and work with a growing team of engineers, earth scientists, deep learning experts, and other data scientists to model risk using the most advanced tools available.
We strongly encourage people from traditionally underrepresented populations in tech - such as women, People of Color, People with Disabilities, and LGBTQ+ people, etc - to apply!
Role Primary Responsibilities
- The primary responsibility of this role is to help be the implementer of the decisions and actions taken by the CEO and Executive Team.
- This position will work to manage communication and planning between technology and business/underwriting and report directly to the CEO
- This role will do many different things every day, while working directly with the CEO. This might involve tasks such as:
- Planning the logistics of executive retreat,
- Editing/preparing a presentation to be given to clients,
- Editing/preparing a presentation to be given to our board,
- Editing/preparing documents of for quarterly planning
- Updating Asana to assign tasks to staff, and following up with them.
- Writing up a spec to make sure that the business needs of the Underwriting team are documented and communicate to the technology team
- Other types of organizational structures/actions to help follow through on the decisions/actions taken by the CEO and Executive Team.
- Needs to be open for travel
- Primary hours will be Bermuda/EDT, so an east coast of USA work day is required.
- Will have opportunity for upward mobility
Requirements
We are looking for a highly motivated, successful Senior Analyst to join a growing team. They should be a demonstrated self-starter with at least 5 years experience working in a technology or early-stage venture-backed company. This person needs to have the drive to solve challenging and complex problems, communicate with internal and external stakeholders, and work in a rapidly growing and changing startup . Below we have listed out some things we are looking for; you do not necessarily need to check all these boxes to be eligible for this position.
Experience/What we are looking for
- Autonomous, self-driven entrepreneurial person
- Ability to understand:
- Underwriting:
- Reinsurance structure/Terminology
- Basic finance - P/L, Cash flow, and balance sheet statements as well as calculating core startup metrics like CAC, LTV, etc.
- Investment strategy
- Technology
- Strong understanding of Agile product development
- Has basic understanding of engineering principles and how software is built
- Has a basic understanding of specific tech products from architecture to modules
- Underwriting:
- Extreme ownership
- Excellent organizational skills
- Work ethic for this role is everything
- Someone who wants to own their own business some day and wants to experience first hand the many tasks/decisions of a fast-growing startup CEO.
- Extreme drive for success and accomplishment
Skills needed
- Ability to learn anything at least a few feet deep as fast as possible
- Communication skills especially via slide decks, documents, and spreadsheets
- Agile product development background
- Engineering-type thinking/data-driven problem solving
- Good understanding of mental models
- Perfectionist/execution oriented
Benefits
We offer a competitive package that is based on location and experience. We also offer the following benefits:
- Stock: Ownership in a fast-growing venture-backed company.
- 401k matching: We care about your ability to save for your future.
- Family Focus: Parental leave and flexibility for families.
- Time Off: Flexible vacation policy to encourage people to get out and see the world.
- Healthcare: Platinum level Medical, dental, and vision policies.
- Goodies: Whatever hardware and software you need to get the job done.
- Team Fun: Regularly scheduled events, annual retreat, and celebrations.
- Learning: Learning & Development Opportunities to grow your skills and career.
- Great team: Working with fun, hard-working, kind people committed to making a difference!
- Flexible culture: We are results-focused. We don’t work at the office every day.
- ...And much more! Lots of other perks make this company an incredible place to work.
